Many AV startups use humans as remote supervisors alongside safety drivers sitting behind the wheel.
Cruise's Vogt says the company's AVs on the roads in San Francisco rely on humans less than 1% of the time. But across hundreds, thousands or even millions of AVs, that would add up to a significant amount of time stopped on the road waiting for human guidance. Doubt has crept in as investors puzzle over how soon autonomous business will turn profitable. Simpler or slower AVs like trucks or last-kilometre delivery services operating on highways or on set and low-speed routes are likely to reach profitability first, but will take years to get there.
"I am concerned AV companies will rush to market without proving the safety is better than human-driven vehicles," he added. "But there are so many variables, such as weather, you can take an edge case and then have to layer in all the different variants," she said.In its track tests for cars, AB Dynamics employs a robot arm that it plans to retrofit on slow-moving mining and agricultural trucks to make them largely autonomous.
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